Haggerty Benjamin B, Kennedy David P, Bradbury Thomas N, Karney Benjamin R
University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2025 Jan;51(1):3-16. doi: 10.1177/01461672231169591. Epub 2023 May 9.
Since the onset of COVID-19, a rise in loneliness has raised concerns about the social impact of lockdowns and distancing mandates. Yet, to date, the effects of the pandemic on social networks have been studied only indirectly. To evaluate how the pandemic affected social networks, the current analyses analyzed five waves of detailed social network interviews conducted before and during the first 18 months of the pandemic in a sample especially vulnerable to contracting the virus: mostly non-White couples (243 husbands and 250 wives) recruited from lower income neighborhoods. Pre-COVID interviews asked spouses to name 24 individuals with whom they interact regularly. Post-COVID interviews indicated a nearly 50% decline in face-to-face interactions and a nearly 40% decline in virtual interactions, with little recovery over the first 18 months of the pandemic. Compared with less affluent couples, those with higher incomes maintained more of their network relationships, especially when virtual interactions were taken into account.
自新冠疫情爆发以来，孤独感的增加引发了人们对封锁措施和社交距离规定所产生的社会影响的担忧。然而，迄今为止，疫情对社交网络的影响仅得到了间接研究。为了评估疫情如何影响社交网络，当前的分析对在疫情头18个月之前及期间进行的五轮详细社交网络访谈进行了分析，这些访谈的样本来自特别容易感染病毒的人群：主要是从低收入社区招募的非白人夫妇（243名丈夫和250名妻子）。新冠疫情之前的访谈要求配偶们说出他们经常互动的24个人。新冠疫情之后的访谈表明，面对面互动减少了近50%，虚拟互动减少了近40%，在疫情的头18个月里几乎没有恢复。与不太富裕的夫妇相比，收入较高的夫妇维持了更多的社交网络关系，尤其是在考虑到虚拟互动的情况下。
